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Surprises

by Mike Masnick

Mon, Nov 1st 1999 10:47am





RealNetworks Spying on Users

from the not-quite-the-privacy-folks-expected dept

Turns out that RealNetwork's Jukebox product sends a lot of info back to the company. It tracks who the user is and what sort of music they are listening to. The privacy policy they make you read doesn't happen to mention this (oops).

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    uhhh.

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    Houseman, Nov 1st, 1999 @ 1:15pm

    oh my gawd... this is freaky..
    i'm being stalked by realnetworks...
    ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!! hey coo... first post...

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    RealNetworks

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    Dan Miller, Nov 2nd, 1999 @ 10:38am

    I hold the same opinion on this one as I do with the potential for Microsoft to know what's on my machine. Who cares! If I have something to hide I'll either find a better place to put it, or I'll encrypt it so it doesn't matter what they see on my machine.

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